Lamentations 2
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How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

how

Lamentations 1:1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she …

Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the …

covered

Lamentations 3:43,44 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you …

Ezekiel 30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break …

Ezekiel 32:7,8 And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the …

Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick …

and cast

Isaiah 14:14-15 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High…

Ezekiel 28:14-16 You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you so: you …

Matthew 11:23 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be brought …

Luke 10:15,18 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell…

Revelation 12:7-9 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against …

the beauty

1 Samuel 4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from …

2 Samuel 1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, …

Ezekiel 7:20-22 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will …

his footstool

1 Chronicles 28:2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, …

Psalm 99:5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

Psalm 132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

swallowed

Lamentations 1:17,21 Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the …

Lamentations 3:43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you …

Job 2:3 And the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that …

Psalm 21:9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the …

Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …

Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the …

Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, said the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, …

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:4,9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, …

Zechariah 11:5,6 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they …

Matthew 18:33 Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, even …

he hath thrown

Lamentations 2:5,17 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed …

Jeremiah 5:10 Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take …

Micah 5:11,12 And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your …

Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build …

2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through …

brought them down to Heb. made to touch

Isaiah 25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, …

Isaiah 26:5 For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays …

polluted

Psalm 89:39,40 You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned …

Isaiah 23:9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, …

Isaiah 43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have …

Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given …

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

bent

Lamentations 2:5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed …

Lamentations 3:3,12,13 Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day…

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …

Job 16:12-14 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me …

Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned …

Jeremiah 21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and …

Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have …

that were pleasant to the eye. Heb. the desirable of the eye

Ezekiel 24:25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from …

he poured

Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the …

2 Chronicles 34:21,25 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel …

Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength …

Isaiah 51:17-20 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand …

Isaiah 63:6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk …

Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of …

Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury shall …

Jeremiah 21:5,12 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and …

Jeremiah 36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and …

Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to …

Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near …

Ezekiel 22:22 As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so shall you be …

Ezekiel 36:18 Why I poured my fury on them for the blood that they had shed on …

Nahum 1:2,6 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

he hath violently. 'He hath destroyed the temple, as if it had been no better than a cottage erected in a garden, while the fruit is gathering, and then removed, or suffered to decay.'

Psalm 80:12 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which …

Psalm 89:40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.

Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will …

Isaiah 63:18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: …

Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, …

tabernacle. or hedge as if

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a …

caused

Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: …

Zephaniah 3:18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who …

the king

Lamentations 4:16,20 The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard them: …

Lamentations 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

Isaiah 43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have …

Jeremiah 52:11-27 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound …

Ezekiel 12:12,13 And the prince that is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the …

Ezekiel 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, …

Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the …

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

cast off

Lamentations 2:1 How has the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his …

Leviticus 26:31,44 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to …

Psalm 78:59-61 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel…

Isaiah 64:10,11 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem …

Jeremiah 7:12-14 But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name …

Jeremiah 26:6,18 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city …

Jeremiah 51:13 O you that dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end …

Ezekiel 7:20-22 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will …

Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem …

Matthew 24:2 And Jesus said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say …

Acts 6:13,14 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …

given up Heb. shut up

Lamentations 2:5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed …

2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, …

Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set …

Jeremiah 33:3,4 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty …

Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the …

Ezekiel 7:24 Why I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess …

Amos 2:5 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

they have

Psalm 72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children …

Psalm 74:3-8 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the …

Ezekiel 7:21,22 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and …

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

gates

Nehemiah 1:3 And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there …

Jeremiah 39:2,8 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth …

Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have declined to fight, they have remained …

Jeremiah 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of …

her king

Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of …

Lamentations 4:15,20 They cried to them, Depart you; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch …

Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over …

2 Kings 24:12-15 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, …

2 Kings 25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the …

Jeremiah 52:8,9 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook …

Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare: …

Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, …

the law

2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel has been without the true God, and without …

Ezekiel 7:26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; then …

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, …

her prophets

Psalm 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there …

Amos 8:11,12 Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine …

Micah 3:6,7 Therefore night shall be to you, that you shall not have a vision; …

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

elders

Lamentations 4:5,16 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that …

Lamentations 5:12,14 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored…

Job 2:13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, …

Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall …

Isaiah 47:1,5 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …

sit. Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend Judea capta

Lamentations 1:1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she …

and keep

Lamentations 3:28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.

Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the …

Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the …

cast up

Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before …

2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors …

Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …

Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, …

they have girded

Isaiah 15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the …

Isaiah 36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, …

Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall …

Ezekiel 27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them …

Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

the virgins

Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: …

Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

eyes

Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because …

Lamentations 3:48-51 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the …

1 Samuel 30:4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice …

Psalm 6:7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.

Psalm 31:9 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed …

Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I …

Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: …

my bowels

Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; my …

Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes …

my liver

Job 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and …

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my …

for

Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they …

Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor …

Jeremiah 8:19-22 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because …

Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…

Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore you shall say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with …

because

Lamentations 2:19,20 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour …

Lamentations 4:3,4,9,10 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their …

Luke 23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed …

swoon or faint

They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

prophets

Isaiah 9:15,16 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches …

Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the …

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their …

Jeremiah 6:13,14 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one …

Jeremiah 8:10,11 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to …

Jeremiah 14:13-15 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say to them, You …

Jeremiah 23:11-17 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I …

Jeremiah 27:14-16 Therefore listen not to the words of the prophets that speak to you, …

Jeremiah 28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, …

Jeremiah 29:8,9 For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your …

Jeremiah 37:19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied to you, saying, The …

Ezekiel 13:2-16 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, …

Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will …

Micah 3:5-7 Thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, …

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …

they have

Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show …

Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to …

Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom …

FALSE

Jeremiah 23:14-17,31,32 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: …

Jeremiah 27:9,10 Therefore listen not you to your prophets, nor to your diviners, …

Ezekiel 22:25,28 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle thereof, like …

Micah 3:5 Thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, …

Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have …

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

The combination of scorn, enmity, rage, and exultation, which the conquerors and spectators manifested at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, are here described with peculiar pathos and energy. The whole scene is presented to view as in an exquisitely finished historical painting. that pass

Deuteronomy 29:22-28 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up …

1 Kings 9:7-9 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; …

2 Chronicles 7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every …

Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that …

by

Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that …

Job 27:22,23 For God shall cast on him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand…

Ezekiel 25:6 For thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, …

Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that …

they

Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and …

Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing…

Jeremiah 25:9,18 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …

Jeremiah 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with …

Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an …

Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house …

Zephaniah 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelled carelessly, that said in …

wag

2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin …

Psalm 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they …

Psalm 44:14,15 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among …

Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, …

Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that …

Matthew 27:39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

Mark 15:29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, …

is this

Lamentations 2:6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of …

Psalm 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, …

Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, …

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

thine

Lamentations 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Job 16:9,10 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his …

Psalm 22:13 They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, …

Psalm 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened …

gnash

Psalm 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

Psalm 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.

Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his …

Acts 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they …

we have swallowed

Psalm 56:2 My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight …

Psalm 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that …

Psalm 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Isaiah 49:19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, …

Jeremiah 50:7,17 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, …

Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed …

Ezekiel 25:3,6,15 And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus said …

Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because they …

Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a …

Zephaniah 2:8-10 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children …

we have seen

Psalm 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, …

Psalm 41:8 An evil disease, say they, sticks fast to him: and now that he lies …

Obadiah 1:12-16 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the …

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

done

Lamentations 2:8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: …

Leviticus 26:14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …

Deuteronomy 29:18-23 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …

Deuteronomy 31:16,17 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …

Deuteronomy 32:15-27 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown …

Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants …

Micah 2:3 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise …

he hath thrown

Lamentations 2:1,2 How has the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his …

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:8,9 Now will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, …

he hath caused

Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD …

Deuteronomy 28:43,44 The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high; …

Psalm 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: …

Psalm 89:42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made …

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

cry out

Psalm 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and …

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before …

Psalm 119:55,147,148 I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law…

Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit …

Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, …

Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain …

watches

Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outside …

Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Mark 13:35 Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house …

pour

1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful …

1 Samuel 7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured …

Job 3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out …

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before …

Psalm 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

lift up

Psalm 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift …

Psalm 63:4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.

Psalm 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting …

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, …

that faint

Lamentations 2:11,12 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured …

Lamentations 4:1-9 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the …

Isaiah 51:20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, …

Ezekiel 5:10,16 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and …

Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children …

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

consider

Exodus 32:11 And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your …

Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not …

Isaiah 63:16-19 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and …

Isaiah 64:8-12 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our …

Jeremiah 14:20-21 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: …

shall the women

Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they …

Leviticus 26:29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters …

Deuteronomy 28:53-57 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons …

2 Kings 6:28,29 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman …

Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh …

Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and …

of a span long or swaddled with their hands. shall the priest

Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders …

Lamentations 4:13,16 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, …

Psalm 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Isaiah 9:14-17 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch …

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their …

Jeremiah 14:15-18 Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy …

Jeremiah 23:11-15 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I …

Ezekiel 9:5,6 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through …

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

young

Deuteronomy 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person …

Joshua 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and …

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, …

2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their …

Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, …

Jeremiah 51:22 With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you …

Ezekiel 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and …

my virgins

Lamentations 1:15,18 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the middle of …

Psalm 78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, …

Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: …

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their …

Amos 4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your …

thou hast killed

Lamentations 2:2,17 The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied…

Lamentations 3:43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you …

Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …

Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the …

Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, said the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, …

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:4,9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 9:5,10 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through …

Zechariah 11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, said the LORD: …

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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